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SUGAR COOKIES AND LAVENDER SWEET PEAS I came home as a newborn cradled in her loving arms. As a preschooler I sat for hours in her lap listening to made up stories about mice who could sing, dance, and talk to each other in the woods. She made me sugar cookies, fruit cobblers, and chicken noodle soup. She hemmed my dresses, made me a special pillow case, and curled my hair with clean white...

What? Isn’t that from the Star Trek movies? Yes…..the Jedi Knights somehow were able to draw great powers from their surrounding environment and universe, instilling them with super-human strength and some type of mental, metal bending powers. That reminds me… I had an uncle who thought he was indestructible and could read minds, but his powers were concentrated in an oak barrel and wore...

I sometimes wonder why I’m not asked to plan social functions at the company I work for. I realize I wasn’t hired as the social coordinator, but I do have some talent in that area and somebody has to do these things, right? I believe I’m probably not asked because my past has caught up with me and my current management has heard about the event I was in charge of planning at the Officer’s...

Fifteen months ago, Joanne (my wife) and I combined a short business trip with a mini-vacation...

By: Camilla McGuinn MACWORLD 2010-GEEKS COMMUNICATINGDuring the early hours of January 27th, we watched from our balcony as the Queen Victoria glided through the fog under the Golden Gate Bridge for its maiden port call in San Francisco at Pier 35.After one last meal a Table 18, goodbyes were said to the staff and to our new friends, then we caught a taxi to the Nob Hill condo we had...